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Assignments for 01/09/2023

Assignments due for the week of January 9th, 2023

Winter cottage

Quick Looks at Great Books

We will be starting our new book, Cyrano de Bergerac, a play by Edmond Rostand. The students received their study guides in class. For next week, read Acts I-III of the play. We will do the questions in the study guide together in class. Just do page 6 by drawing the people in the locations listed on page 5. This will help to picture how the play performance would have looked in Act I at the Hotel Bourgogne.

Then we spent time in our Literary Terms notebook, beginning to cover the terms which have been assigned and discussed this year in the books you have read.

PSAT/SAT/ACT TEST PREP

We reviewed the four subject areas on the ACT today with the use of specific ACT flash cards. Even if you learned a new fact that helps you get one or more questions right this spring, it will be worth it!! No regular homework this week. Each student was given a list of the work they still needed to make up. Many were missing the grammar quizzes. Study the Principal Parts of the Verb and the 12 Classic ACT Grammar Errors to review and prepare. Plan to have all your work made up in the next two weeks.

American History

We reviewed some of our past lessons and studied in groups some sample McGuffey readers that would have been used in all the schools in the 1800’s. Amazingly, the readers taught great Biblical stories, Shakespeare play plots, geography, history, grammar, pronunciation, cursive writing, and moral decision making.

For next week, read Chapter 15 in your history books. (Slavery and Secession.) Our quiz next week will be an objective one over the following four videos on the lives of these U.S. Presidents.

James K. Polk

Zachary Taylor

Millard Fillmore

Franklin Pierce

U.S. Government

Today, we played the same game we played on the first day of class. Amazingly, the students know so much more about our government!! This is also a good review for our upcoming final exam.

For next week, complete the following lessons in your notebooks:
State Government (pages 70-73), City Government (pages 74-76), and The Post Office (pages 78-80). Here are the answers to the Crosswords on pages 69, 73, and 77. State Government, City Government, and The Post Office.

In class today, we also covered the first branch of the U.S. military—the Army. Watch the following video to hear the rousing songs for each branch of the military.

Adventures in American Literature

We began our study of Edgar Allan Poe today by watching a dramatization of his famous story, “The Tell-Tale Heart”.  Then we reviewed and listened to some of his poetry and did pages 66-69.  For next week, read another Poe short story “The Black Cat”.  Then do pages 70-72, answering questions and comparing the two stories.  Read the short story “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe.

Also, read the story “Rip Van Winkle” by Washington Irving and be prepared for a quiz.

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